Unemployment key to business confidence: report

TASMANIAN business confidence has fallen, but remains above the national average.

Tasmanian small and medium-sized businesses put the fall in confidence down to a decrease in business and the state's "poor unemployment situation'', according to Sensis, which has released its November Business Index report.

Tasmania was the only state where businesses said unemployment was a key factor affecting their confidence, report author Christena Singh said.

Shadow Small Business Minister Adam Brooks said: "The Labor-Green experiment is so out of touch with the community and businesses that a whopping 57 per cent of say that the government's policies are working against them.''

"Embarrassingly for the government, only a tiny 4 per cent think that state government policies actually help them."